It has yet to bring about any litigation, Carnig says, "but I think what we have gotten is this public conversation".
More recently, his focus had shifted from contesting corporate elections to trying to bring about change through litigation.
Bonnie Bellow, a spokeswoman for the agency, said yesterday that the settlement was a better way to bring about a cleanup than extensive litigation.
"The Government may not impose taxes or penalties on petitioners for failure to provide the relevant notice," the court declared, referring to the opt-out form that brought about the litigation.
Ron Motley, a trial lawyer who built a fortune out of high-risk cases against the asbestos and tobacco industries, leading the litigation team that helped bring about the largest civil settlement in American history — $246 billion — died on Thursday in Charleston, S.C.
Even this well-intended litigation has the capacity to bring about unintended harm.
Despite those constitutional guarantees of rights, almost a century of civil rights agitation and litigation would be required to bring about consistent federal enforcement of those rights in the former Confederate states.
In the absence of federal action, advocates "are looking at every option ― including litigation, political pressure and legislation" to bring about reform, said Karen Sheley, director of the ACLU Illinois' police practices project.
They were trying to bring about some justice, using the only weapon at their disposal: litigation.
"We continue to make progress and are cooperating fully with the efforts undertaken by Judge Breyer, working through Director Mueller, to bring about a prompt and fair resolution of the U.S. civil litigation," the German automaker said.
In the 1960's and 1970's, so-called impact litigation was brought by civil rights groups and other activists to bring about changes in public policies that legislatures were unwilling to effect, like reforms in prison conditions.
